INDUSTRIES
Not-for-profits run on people power. There’s rarely a dedicated L&D team to create induction and organisation-wide training, or keep track of Working With Children Checks, First Aid certificates and other expiries. It should still be simple enough that your people can stay focused on your mission, not the paperwork.
Most training platforms assume one type of worker, on one system.
This segment never works that way.
HR platforms handle paid staff. Volunteer systems handle volunteers. Plenty of people hold both roles, and neither system sees the whole picture, turning "who's trained" reporting into manual reconciliation.
ACNC governance standards, the Privacy Act, and Working With Children Check requirements apply regardless of headcount or budget. Funders and boards want evidence it's happening, not just documented.
Safeguarding and compliance training delivered once, at induction, fades. Without refreshers or recertification, organisations end up relying on staff and volunteers remembering something they were told once, months or years ago.
Literacy and language diversity across a volunteer base is common, not an edge case. Training built only for confident readers excludes the people who most need to understand it — a gap that shows up fast when English isn't a volunteer's first language.
Start ready, customise fast, and prove it all in one place.
Start with 500+ editable modules covering AU/NZ compliance, privacy, WHS, workplace conduct and cultural awareness. Add your own safeguarding policies and program-specific procedures as your organisation needs them, without starting from a blank page.
Turn a program manager's or volunteer coordinator's expertise into structured training using Sage AI, without needing a learning specialist to do it. If your organisation delivers training externally too, the same content scales from a one-off session to a full program.
Manage staff and volunteers in the same platform, with pathways set up for each group. Build recertification into the schedule so safeguarding training doesn't fade after induction. Generate funder and board reports on demand instead of assembling them by hand.
I've been working for not for profits for years and develop custom training for volunteers and this product is a dream come true for me, I really couldn't believe that it was so affordable and thought it must be too good to be true but it's really easy and quick to design relevant training for my volunteers.
Heidi H - Volunteer coordinator
The same organisation. A completely different training operation.
The Tribal Habits training library includes hundreds of modules covering the privacy, safety and conduct obligations that apply across the sector, reviewed by Australian and New Zealand lawyers and updated when legislation changes. And unlike locked libraries, every module is editable, which means you can start with what’s already built, then tailor it to your own safeguarding policies and program procedures.
Working With Children Checks, safeguarding policies, and program-specific procedures are specific to your organisation, not something a generic library can prebuild. Use Sage AI to turn your own safeguarding policy, volunteer handbook, or program procedures into structured, trackable training.
In reality most staff don’t do training every month, so why should you pay for everyone every month? Tribal Habits charges on monthly active users (someone who logs in at least once during the month). So you only pay for the staff who log in and train each month.
Most LMS platforms charge per seat, whether staff and volunteers log in or not. Tribal Habits uses Monthly Active User pricing, so you only pay for a staff member or volunteer when they log in and train that month, and registered charities and not-for-profits get a 20% discount on top of that. Store your full roster, including a large or seasonal volunteer pool, at no extra cost.
A community services organisation with 40 staff and a pool of 200 volunteers commits to a 60 MAU plan. Each month, those active users are a mix of staff doing refreshers, new volunteers completing induction, and existing volunteers completing an annual safeguarding recertification. In a high-intake month, if usage runs over, the extra users are charged at the plan rate, minus the 20% charity discount. In quieter months, nothing extra is charged.
Online modules, your own courses and induction, clinical content, and external records like licences and qualifications, all on one worker profile. Reporting spans every kind of training, so you see the full competency picture without stitching systems together.
Monthly active user pricing means casuals, agency staff, and part-timers only count when they log in and complete training. No per-seat fees, and no paying for people who aren't actively using the platform.
No offshore helpdesks. Support comes from a local team based in Australia, who understands the funding, reporting and compliance environment your organisation operates in.
Your training data, and the data of the staff, volunteers and clients connected to it, stays in Australia. ISO 27001 certification gives you the security posture expected when handling sensitive client and donor information.
HR and volunteer management systems, SSO, and thousands more via Zapier or the Public API. Automate enrolments, sync records automatically, and keep staff and volunteer data consistent without manual admin.
Registered charities and not-for-profits receive a 20% discount on all Tribal Habits subscription plans. Pricing is based on active users, so you only pay for people who actually log in and train in a given month, not your entire headcount, including volunteers.
Yes. Tribal Habits works for employees, volunteers, board members and contractors in one platform, including people who hold more than one role at once.
No. You can edit the pre-built courses in the training library, or use one of the course templates and Sage AI will help you turn build structured, engaging courses faster. If you can use PowerPoint, you can build training in Tribal Habits.
Yes. You can upload and track external certifications, set expiry dates, and automate renewal reminders.
Our library covers privacy, WHS, conduct and cultural awareness topics relevant to the sector. We don’t currently have a prebuilt module for your specific safeguarding policy or working-with-vulnerable-people procedures, since these vary by organisation. Use Sage AI to turn your own policy documents into structured training.
Most organisations can configure their portal and upload learners within hours, and start delivering training in the same week.
Yes. Completion reports, compliance dashboards and individual learner records can be exported directly into board packs or funder acquittal reports, filtered by team, role, location or training type, and scheduled to run automatically.
Yes. Tribal Habits is built to WCAG accessibility standards, and content can include narration and other supports for learners with different literacy levels or reading confidence.
Yes. Tribal Habits integrates with HR and volunteer management systems, SSO, Zapier, and the Public API.
